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CARCASS
From 11 to 13 February 2025
To celebrate the launch of this new version of Numeridanse, the film of Marco da Silva Ferreira’s show CARCASS is offered to you exclusively for 48 hours.
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Numeridanse
In CARCASS, Marco da Silva Ferreira uses dance as a tool for research into community, the construction of collective identity, memory and cultural crystallization. The choreography, initially based on a set of jumping legs as an agitator and gas pedal, gradually takes shape as a vibrant, rebellious, carnivalesque body.
The 10 performers form a collective that seeks its collective identity in a physical, intuitive and unpretentious flow of body, dance and culture. They start with familiar footwork from clubbing, ball battles, cyphers and the studio, and move on to standardized, unchanging folk dances linked to their memory/heritage. These dances of the past had crystallized and were unable to integrate new definitions of bodies, groups and communities considered minor. We had to break with the authoritarian, totalitarian and paternalistic past.
In CARCASS, an exercise that integrates past and present is proposed. Reflection on: How do you decide to forget and create memory? What role do individual identities play in building a community? What drives identity? What world runs through the individual and collective body? Or rather, which bodies traverse the world?
The steps, complex but performed in simple sneakers, will bring not only sound to the stage, but also exchanges between kinetic, thermal and luminous energies. The physical sounds are accompanied by drums played by João Pais Filipe and electronic music by Luis Pestana. These elements, performed live, form an accelerated soundtrack with references to traditional music (e.g. fanfarre, marching), postmodern music and clubbing music (Techno/trance/dub).
Credits
Artistic direction and choreography Marco da Silva Ferreira
Artistic assistant Catarina Miranda
Dancers André Garcia, Fábio Krayze, Leo Ramos, Marc Oliveras Casas, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Maria Antunes, Max Makowski, Mélanie Ferreira, Nelson Teunis, Nala Revlon
Lights Cárin Geada
Sound ant technical direction João Monteiro
Percussion music João Pais Filipe
Electronic music Luís Pestana
Costumes Aleksandar Protic
Set design Emanuel Santos
Anthropological studies Teresa Fradique
Folk dances Joana Lopes
Production management Mafalda Bastos
Production Mafalda Bastos, Joana Costa Santos
Production Pensamento Avulso
Distribution Art Happens
Video production Fabien Plasson, Maison de la danse, 2023
